Moment Spring 2022

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POEM JASON SCHNEIDERMAN

ADDITIONAL ANTISEMITISM PROGRAMS ON MOMENTLIVE! How to Stay Safe in America During a Time of Increased Antisemitism with David Delew, Eva Fogelman, Richard Priem and Ira N. Forman

The ketubah, a Jewish marriage contract that dates back to Talmudic times, is an object of ritual beauty. For many couples, it represents the promise and obligations of a shared life, even as it provides for the contingency of divorce. But what does it become when that shared life is over? Jason Schneiderman’s “Ketubah” weds two partial texts to create something whole out of estrangement itself. —Jody Bolz, poetry editor

KETUBAH

QAnon’s Antisemitic Roots with Mia Bloom, Sophia Moskalenko and Sarah Posner How Should We Define Antisemitism and Who Should Define It? with Dina Porat, Mark Weitzman, Malcolm Hoenlein, Willaim Daroff and Ira N. Forman

though I’m the one who picked it out according to the law of Moses and Israel its greens and reds inspired by Rothko in the month of _ in the year of _

The State of Antisemitism in Germany Today with Ambassador Emily Haber and Robert Siegel The Rise of Antisemitism in France with Marc Weitzmann and Robert Siegel The Holocaust and Antisemitism in Latin America with Ilan Stavans and Andrés Spokoiny

a modern touch in our Jewish home measured since the creation of the world that now is gone or is yours without me I offer two hundred zuzim and even the shirt off my back

Blood Libel: An Investigation into the Origins of a Virulent and Enduring Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory with E.M. Rose

we married on the fourth day it was legal for two men I was brought from my father’s house

What to Do About Antisemitism and Racism with Eric K. Ward and Nadine Epstein A Conversation on Antisemitism with Deborah Lipstadt and Robert Siegel

to marry in this country to live with you as husband and husband I’m glad you kept it

The Growing Threat from Domestic Antisemitism with Holly Huffnagle and Ira N. Forman The Unfortunate Convergence of Antisemitism and COVID-19 with Ira N. Forman and Nadine Epstein

I can’t remember what ours said on this day of joy and celebration

this ancient text rewritten for us not an agreement without consideration Jason Schneiderman is the author of four books of poetry—most recently, Hold Me Tight—and editor of the Oxford University Press anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers.

or a mere formula of a document but something to prove how much we loved.

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